monero-site/_i18n/en/resources/moneropedia/address.md

---
terms: ["address", "addresses"]
summary: "either an alias, such as donate.getmonero.org, or a set of 95 characters starting with a 4"
---

### The Basics

When you send Monero to someone you only need one piece of information, and that is their Monero address. A *raw* Monero address is a set of 95 characters starting with a '4'. The Monero donation address, for instance, is <span class="long-term">44AFFq5kSiGBoZ4NMDwYtN18obc8AemS33DBLWs3H7otXft3XjrpDtQGv7SqSsaBYBb98uNbr2VBBEt7f2wfn3RVGQBEP3A</span>.

Because those addresses are long and complex, you will often encounter an @OpenAlias address instead. For example, Monero donations can be sent to <span class="long-term">donate@getmonero.org</span> or <span class="long-term">donate.getmonero.org</span>.

If you would like to get an @OpenAlias address of your own then there is some information on the [OpenAlias page](/resources/openalias).

### Integrated address

An integrated address is an address combined with an encrypted 64-bit @payment-ID. A raw integrated address is 106 characters long.

### In-depth Information

The address is actually the concatenation, in Base58 format, of the *public* @spend-key and the *public* @view-key, prefixed with the network byte (the number 18 for Monero) and suffixed with the first four bytes of the Keccac-256 hash of the whole string (used as a checksum).
Enabled all site except user guides to be multilingual ready - Moved technical specs out of 'Resources' and into root 2017-12-05 19:43:20 +00:00			`---`
			`terms: ["address", "addresses"]`
			`summary: "either an alias, such as donate.getmonero.org, or a set of 95 characters starting with a 4"`
			`---`

			`### The Basics`

			`When you send Monero to someone you only need one piece of information, and that is their Monero address. A raw Monero address is a set of 95 characters starting with a '4'. The Monero donation address, for instance, is <span class="long-term">44AFFq5kSiGBoZ4NMDwYtN18obc8AemS33DBLWs3H7otXft3XjrpDtQGv7SqSsaBYBb98uNbr2VBBEt7f2wfn3RVGQBEP3A</span>.`

Moneropedia relocalized + correction on Italian Account + Removed leftover miners.md (replaced by mining.md) + Removed Dust and update Copyright + Code improvement to avoid reading the config file and to use the builtin jekyll config variable passed in the content + Ammount.md:25/26 glitch "\@transaction-privacy" corrected. PL to be checked twice. + Italian ammount.md moneropedia links corrected (terms added to destination entries, unnecessary markdown links removed) + Polish corrections + extend ruby \word-boundary in regex to match `-based` `-like` `-form` + Updated readme according to the new way to add or translate a moneropedia entry + fix mining with CryptoNight variant + rebased to include AR + chery picked #820 to avoid conflicts 2018-07-05 15:04:14 +00:00			`Because those addresses are long and complex, you will often encounter an @OpenAlias address instead. For example, Monero donations can be sent to <span class="long-term">donate@getmonero.org</span> or <span class="long-term">donate.getmonero.org</span>.`
Enabled all site except user guides to be multilingual ready - Moved technical specs out of 'Resources' and into root 2017-12-05 19:43:20 +00:00
Moneropedia relocalized + correction on Italian Account + Removed leftover miners.md (replaced by mining.md) + Removed Dust and update Copyright + Code improvement to avoid reading the config file and to use the builtin jekyll config variable passed in the content + Ammount.md:25/26 glitch "\@transaction-privacy" corrected. PL to be checked twice. + Italian ammount.md moneropedia links corrected (terms added to destination entries, unnecessary markdown links removed) + Polish corrections + extend ruby \word-boundary in regex to match `-based` `-like` `-form` + Updated readme according to the new way to add or translate a moneropedia entry + fix mining with CryptoNight variant + rebased to include AR + chery picked #820 to avoid conflicts 2018-07-05 15:04:14 +00:00			`If you would like to get an @OpenAlias address of your own then there is some information on the [OpenAlias page](/resources/openalias).`
Enabled all site except user guides to be multilingual ready - Moved technical specs out of 'Resources' and into root 2017-12-05 19:43:20 +00:00
			`### Integrated address`

			`An integrated address is an address combined with an encrypted 64-bit @payment-ID. A raw integrated address is 106 characters long.`

			`### In-depth Information`

			`The address is actually the concatenation, in Base58 format, of the public @spend-key and the public @view-key, prefixed with the network byte (the number 18 for Monero) and suffixed with the first four bytes of the Keccac-256 hash of the whole string (used as a checksum).`